Sockbridge and Tirril is a small
civil parish
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in
Eden District
Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England, based at Penrith Town Hall in Penrith. It is named after the River Eden, which flows north through the district toward Carlisle. Its population of 49,777 at the 2001 census, increased ...
,
Cumbria
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. It had a population of 397 in 2001, increasing to 415 at the 2011 Census.
It comprises the adjoining settlements of Tirril, Sockbridge and Thorpe. All three were once separate places but are now, in effect, a single village. They are near
Penrith. The two villages are separated by a river.
The parish was formed in 1866 as Sockbridge and was previously a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
in the parish of
Barton.
History and description
Tirril had a Quaker Meeting House from 1668 to 1862. The meeting house was built by Thomas Wilkinson (1686-1758). From 1902 the building was used as the Village Reading Room and in 1932 sold for £140. It is now a house.
The boundary with the parishes of
Askham and Barton also forms part of the boundary of the
Lake District National Park.
The parish is mainly residential, at one time it also included a trekking centre.
Sockbridge Trekking Centre provided hacks of 30mins, 1hr, 2hr and full day treks and also did lessons: Mondays for experienced and Fridays for beginners. They did hacks for first timers to the experienced. However the centre closed in 2013 following the death of the proprietor.
In April 2017 Eden District Council approved an application to build 30 houses in Sockbridge and Tirril; a decision, which given the limited infrastructure of the villages, was strongly opposed locally.
[The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald 29.4.2017 page 9]
The public house in Tirril is the Queen's Head. This was the original home of the
Tirril Brewery which is now, despite its name, based beneath the Pennine fells in a Grade II listed red sandstone barn in the village of
Long Marton
Long Marton is a village and civil parish in the Eden District of the English county of Cumbria. In 2011 the population was 827.
The village previously had a railway station called Long Marton railway station which closed in 1970. Within the p ...
near the ancient county town of Appleby-in-Westmorland.
See also
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Listed buildings in Sockbridge and Tirril
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Sockbridge and Tirril(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria
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